Like Fire The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia

Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea from 1946 to the present. The movement's founder, Paliau Maloat, promoted a program for step-by-step social change in which many of his followers also found hope for a miraculous millenarian transformation. Drawi...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra ANU Press 2021
Series:Monographs in Anthropology
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